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* 14 new server crash found and fixed. 10/10
* 8 different client crashes tracked and fixed (around 3 crash left that i know off but was unable to pinpoint, keep those dmp flowing) 10/10
* A few minor client optimisations, especially when in a ship with a lot of different items. 10/10
* Added all the files needed for steam support on the server side. 10/10
* Added bonus XP for the first time capturing an AI with each different type of hull. Added /caps chat command to list how many and which unique hulls you have captured. At least for now, capping a new ship type is set to give a flat 500 XP. 10/10
* Made Ambushinmatrixes (Seer Radar Jammer items) not trigger if your weapnos’ damage is less than 0 (shield transferences)
+ Fixed a spawner bug in protoplasmica that caused spawns to only start dropping keysyncs on the second spawn. 10/10
+ Added experience tag to a lot of spawners under 120 in low/mid level galaxies so the spawned ai will provide experience. 10/10
* Removed augs from ares warriors and replaced them with an OL 10/10
* Made it so that vacuum scoops will not effect items that the owner is not allowed to scoop 10/10
* Vacuum scoops will now shut themselves off after 30s 10/10
* Improved the speed on sp related transactions (the delay should be a lot shorter now) 10/10
* Made energybanks report their energy per second rather than energy per generation interval (1.2s) 10/10
+ Fixed particle emitters. Player/ ai Holo projectors as well as particle emitters in effected galaxies have been fixed. 10/10
* Fixed a display error for skill point debt/credit 10/10
* Item factories no longer work on abandoned bases 10/10
* Small changes to the roaming UrQa’qa Qu’ishi boss 10/10
* Added a new functionality to prevent specific items (ai only items) from being used by players. 10/10
* Fixed an issue where Lunarian and Selenite Ray and Beam had their stats swapped around 10/10
* Added fires to several heat damage weapons from Perilous Perilous Space 10/10
* Small improvements to Lunarian Bank and Selenite Bank 10/10
* Improved the Hybridized Paximinus to make it in line with the Paximinus stats 10/10

Estimated downtime is currently unknown, could be as long as 3 hours due to an unexpected issue 1/10

I liked seeing random santa hats in gals

So... can you just remove this 30s timer so vacuum scoops work again? and 30s isn't very long for someone running DGs anyway. The best thing about vacuum scoops was knowing that loot will get sucked up, not remembering to go and re-enable every 30 seconds.

They're trying to stop the farming. It stops the farming. It's a good change and 30 seconds is way more than you need to scoop some DG loot.